On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:52:15PM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Larry Wall wrote: : : >really short alias for $self. Suppose we pick "o" for that, short : >for "object". Then we get self calls of the form: : > : > o.frobme(...) : : How 'bout ..frobme(...)? Or would it be a hell to tell from C<..>? : (Mnemonic reminder: '.'=myself, '..'=my mom - poor analogy, actually!) : : How 'bout a single underscore? _.frobme()?!?
Thought about those in the night, but they don't strike me as visually distinct enough. They just look like someone stepped on the front of your expression. Larry
